Women in detention in Thailand: Submission to the United Nations working group on discrimination against women and girls

23/10/2024
FIDH at the UN
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On 23 October 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) submitted a report to the United Nations (UN) Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, ahead of the Working Group’s official visit to Thailand from 2 to 13 December 2024.

The report, which focuses on women in detention in Thailand, includes the following chapters:

1. Thailand among the world’s top jailer of women
2. Women disproportionately sentenced to death for drug-related offenses
3. Discriminatory penitentiary system
4. Female prisoners detained far from their families
5. Women’s prisons almost at full occupancy
6. Female prisoners subjected to degrading treatment
7. Female prisoners lack adequate gender-specific sanitary and hygiene products
8. Women in detention deprived of adequate healthcare
9. Recommendations

Read the submission here (in english only).

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